Headscratchers / Strangers on a Train

• I don't think that Bruno made a really smart decision by going to his father's bed and stay there so Guy would confuse him with his father. Of course, being the good man he is, Guy doesn't kill him and, mistaking Bruno for his father, tries to awake him to tell him about his son's plans, only for Bruno to reveal himself and that his father wasn't at home that night. What if maybe Guy had convinced himself to kill Bruno's father and triggered the gun without hesitation, as he does, more or less, in the book? Didn't Bruno think about that possibility?
• What Bruno would have done if he couldn't have been able to retrieve Guy's lighter from the storm drain? Would he have fled the city or looked for something to break the storm drain to retrieve the lighter?
• What bugs me since I saw this film is the fact that the police receive no punishment at all for shooting dead the merry-go-round operator in their attempt to shoot Guy while he chases Bruno. Although Guy ultimately proves his innocence and Bruno gets killed in the merry-go-round's destruction, no one brings about the fact that an innocent man was killed by the police and that his death could have led to many others as the destruction of the merry-go-round could have killed all its passengers. They didn't care for the operator or what?
  • 1951. Many police departments were more corrupt then, and departments and cops always first look after their own.

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